Heat distributor for cooking vessels



Nov. 26, 1929. l.. F. HANS 1,737,498

HEAT DISTRIBUTOR FOR COOKING VESSELS Filed April 21. 1928 INVENTOR ATTORNEY Patented Nov. 26, 1929` U i NETE@ STATES PATENT OFFICE LEWIS FRANCIS EAMES, OF GREENSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA HEAT DISTRIBUTOR FOR COOKING VESSELS Application filed April 21, 1928. Serial No. 171,901.

The present invention relates to a heat is preferably placed on the outer periphery equalizer for cooking vessels. A source of but may'also be placed at some convenient considerable trouble in applying heat in coolrpoint in the high heat area, or in other words ing arises from the unequal distribution of approximately central-the distinguishing heat from the heating unit or stove, which feature of the invention being that a zig-Zag 55 is commonly gas or electricity, generally with or circuitous path is afforded for the air and the former in the shape of an annular multicaused by unequal temperatures to effect a jet burner. In all these cases the central por draft and equalize the heating of the plate. tions at which the high heat is applied-due The invention therefore comprises a plate to defective radiation produces an interior provided with a circuitous path for flow of G0 Zone of very high temperature, which reacts air thru the body of the plate to equalize its 0n the bottom surface of the cooking vessel temperature. It comprises other more spea-nd unless there is an abundance of water cie features the novelty of which will be in the vessel to dispose of the unequal Zones hereinafter described and will be definitely of heat by convection burns the food at the indicated in the accompanying claim. o5 central part while the outer parts of the vesln the accompanying drawings illustrating sel are improperly heated. Moreover, the the inventionlocalization of the heat at the central portions Figure l is a diagrammatical illustration is suflicient to burn out the bottoms of the 0f a plate embodying one form of my'inven- 2o vessels, especially fusible material such as tion- To aluminum ware, all of which is due to the Figure 2 is an elevation of the same part in peripheral parts of the heating medium being section with a superposed cooking vessel. relatively much cooler than the interior por- Referring now in detail to the drawings-l tion, since however well conductive the marepresents a plate, which may be in the form terial of the stove may be, the radiation canof an iron casting, in this case shown in circuF 71 not effect uniform distribution of the heat. lar form and which has at its periphery a l correct this trouble by providing a plate pair of ribs l and 2, forming a passage for preferably casting of iron upon the upper the distribution of air around the periphery surface of which the Cookinovessel may be of the plate with an inlet port l for the air 3o applied and induce a steam or' air thru chanand outlet ports 6-7. Within the rib 2 are So nels formed in the face of the plate or in its formed series of salient baffles 3 connecting' body and thereby induce a draft thru the alternately with the two sides of the circular body of the plate which equalizes the temperwall 2 and by which the air is caused to pass ature and renders the interior part of subin a zig-zag path thru-out the body of the stantially the same temperature as the peplate and iind a vent at the outlet port 5 to S5 ripheral parts. The device may be round or afford communication with the passageway 8 of other plate-form, in which the channels for formed by the ribsvl and 2. The air then conveying the air take a circuitous path so as passes through the passageway 8 to vents to give it even distribution for its contact (SW7 formed in the outer rib upon opposite with the channel walls and when the cooking sides of the port t. The reference numeral .929 vessel is applied over the plate the high cen- 9 represents an annular gas burner provided tral Zone of heat produces a chimney effect with series of distributed jets in yan usual inducing a draft from the Zone of high heat form of construction and l() the surface of a to the peripheral portions thereby effecting gas-range, upon which the equalizing plate an equal heating effect on the contents of the is placed. l1 represents a cooking vessel su- 95 cooking vessel. perposed on the plate and thereby covering I provide openings in the wall at the pethe open ribbed surface of the plate already riphery, a series of vents by which the air described. As thus described the central may have ingress and egress to effect air portions of the plate become much more highmovement thru the plate. The ingress vent ly heated than the peripheral portions and *100 the air in expanding seeks to find an outlet. The port 4 being of much larger area than the ports 6-7 will induce at the face of the plate a stream of hot air entering at the point 4. and discharging at the points 6 7 and the ilow of air across the baffled surface 3 will render the body of the plate at a uniform temperature so that the central portion of the cooking vessel receives substantially the same degree of heat as the outer portion. l

The invention of course is not limited in application to a source ,of heat due to a gas range but may be equally applied in a case of an electrically7 heated plate, and moreover the point of ingress for the air need not necessarily be located as shown in the drawing at the periphery, but may be applied at some otherpoint of the casting or other plate to afford an effective circulation of air.

. Having thus described my invention, what I claim is new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A stove attachment for cooking Vessels comprising a plate, a pair of ribs rising from the plate in spaced relation to each other with one rib at the outer edge of the plate and the other rib inwardly of the edge to provide witheach other an air passageway about the edge, baiiies rising from the plate in spaced relation with respect to each other and extending inwardly from opposite walls of the inner rib, said baiiles being formed with the wall they extend from but disposed in spaced relation to the opposite wall to provide a zigzag air passage, the inwardly rib being formed with an air inlet port extending to the edge of the plate and an air outlet port diametrically opposite the inlet port, saidv outlet port connecting with the first mentioned air passage, and the other rib being formed with air outlet ports upon opposite sides oi' the inlet port of the inner rib.

In testilnon whereof I atix my signature.

L WIS FRANCIS HANES. 

